Posts by Andre
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Maybe Anthony McCarten doesn't want the Price of Milk distributed too widely unless it goes all "Ladies Night" on him and ends up as "The Full Monty". That was the most disgusting rip-off of a NZ cultural icon since Richard Pearse, The Finns and Baigent's the Holy Blood and the Goly Grail (the Da Vinci Code) BTW...
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Media7 ran an interesting piece about book publishing last night. I don't know anyone with a kindle device. Does anyone?
I've never been to London and LMFAO hearing people bleat about how horrible it is to be there. It's sooooo Remuera Morrison. -
Why not have a NZ Film Month on TV instead of at the cinemas? Why don't Sky, Mediaworks or TVNZ have a NZ film channel? Wouldn't this get a higher viewership and return similar cultural benefits to Maori TV? John Davies at the Academy also runs Arkles Entertainment (NZ's largest independent movie distribution company) and he is a champion of local films. I imagine that John is running lots of kiwi films without getting a financial return and wonder whether the big chains would be willing to follow suit without his commitment to the local industry.
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It's a TV PR campaign leveraging the opportunity to invite movie stars like Sam Neill along for the national celebs to mix with. They should film it, play it at 8am on a Sunday morning on Prime or TVNZ 7 and then use the footage for their ads. It's an extremely handy event for CV enhancement as well but otherwise we don't care much. The winner of Best Actor in a Motion Picture last year works with me and it hasn't brought him in much new acting work or prospects and most people wouln't know his name or face. It's an event that seems to be made for TV networks rather than made for TV.
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Both tv networks end up looking like dorks here but in TVNZ's case they've managed to allow what should have been a win make them look like losers. Maybe TV3 are spending too much time fighting and not enough time producing winning news journalism?
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Apropos the prams: doncha hate it when they get flat tyres! dragging it downto the garage to pump it up etc. And did you know that Waitakere City gives all residents free car seats for their kids and give them a brand new one for each child born there? To my knowledge the North Shore and Manukau City Councils don't do this and it sounds like a great idea.
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Well it looks like everyone had a fun night! I apologise for saying "women" instead of "people" in my original post. I'm guilty myself having waited until now to have kids but unfortunately I've chosen previous partners that thought partying or working or travelling was more important than having kids. I've found that it is normally my partner driving the decision whether or not to have kids rather than me. I wonder if anyone else finds this too? I had a long-term partner who was very scared to have children because she had a small pelvic floor. She wanted kids but just put it off until it became too dangerous for her.By the time we separated I had almost given up on the idea of ever having children so I feel very lucky to have found someone I love who has born us such a wonderful baby boy. Almost all of the females that I have been involved with talked about "having children one day" in a way that really meant "sometime in a decade perhaps". I made my comments partly because I hear so much about people (rather than just women and I apologise again for the offence this caused) who put off child birth for their careers and I think that this is wrong. We put off child birth because we don't feel old enough and are still enjoying being young. we put off child birth for social reasons. Because we can't afford it. because we don't feel our lives are secure enough. Because we want to see the world first. It just seems it's not often reported or acknowledged as being because of anything other than our "careers". Maybe the reasons for the older age of people having kids has as much to do with the amount that we are being paid falling through the floor while being lumbered with huge amounts of debt by the greedy baby boomers along with womens' liberation instead of "career stuff". That was my point. Along with the fact that I can say I had my first baby in my thirties and the huge difference this makes in peoples' perceptions of you - even though I only made it by 2 days. Your responses have been unexpected to say the least...
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So when is the acceptable age for procreation?
I recently became a Dad in my thirties - thank goodness. Procreating in your early forties feels a bit old. In your fifties is ok if you're an active guy but anything over 40 seems a bit old for a woman. This is an area where there is room for a bit of gender bias i think - men don't have to give birth. And I increasingly feel that many Gen X & Y women feel entitled to everything without having to give up years of partying and travel to have babies in their 20's or early 30's. In many cases it's not about them wanting to have careers - I reckon they just don't want to be tied down. My partner had a baby boy two days before my 40th - so I was 39 years and 363 days old at the time. Phew! That was a close shave...
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who cares... the Pixies are coming and that is ALL THAT MATTERS NOW!!!
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Do the ASB still sponsor Kashin? I remember him from when I opened my first bank account aged 5. Since then my saving habits have fallen by the wayside but Kashin got them off to a good start. RIP big guy!